Author: Tony Tam
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The backhand smash in badminton
It’s been a while since the sport of badminton has seen another great backhand smash. Taufik Hidayt was the defacto backhand king. See videos on DuckduckGo search. Victor Axelsen of Denmark has been working on his backhand smashes and I believe it’s the new birth of the backhand smash. I’ve seen him use it at…
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Software Was Never Meant To Be Free
We used to have shareware and that was how programmers could give you software for free. When 2% of people pay for ‘free’ software, the rest of the world could get the benefits of free software. Because people don’t pay for mobile & desktop apps developers started adding very annoying ads into software causing some…
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https://whats.new
This idea from Google is currently under limited available release. Learn more at https://whats.new/ .new is a domain extension exclusively for performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it. Help your customers take action faster. Less time clicking means more time creating.
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Staying Productive : from After Hours Podcast
Do one thing at a time, turn off notifications Saying no to almost everything, pretend if the ask is for tomorrow, would you say yes? Turn off email notifications Switch to paper Getting outside Every meeting tends to fill the time allocation, push to finish early Carving out alone time Read books to be exposed…
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Link: NYT – It’s Time to Unfriend the Internet
About Facebook Nor does she mince words when taking on one behemoth in particular. “I hate it,” she writes. “The company is one of the biggest mistakes in modern history, a digital cesspool that, while calamitous when it fails, is at its most dangerous when it works as intended. Facebook is an ant farm of…
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World Health Org. – Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)
Don’t let TV news and websites get you all stressed out about the coronavirus. Stay informed with WHO, the definitive voice worldwide. The incentives of news media is to scare us and get us to be glued to the webpages or TV screen. The following are quoted from https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses 23 February 2020 | Q&A What…
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Mark Twain: quote on wisdom
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. – Mark Twain
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Debugging Android Auto As A Developer
In order to debug Android Auto cd ~/Library/Android/sdk ./platform-tools/adb forward tcp:5277 tcp:5277 ./extras/google/auto/desktop-head-unit On your phone/emulator, turn on debugging then in Android Auto Settings -> Start head unit server Reference: Setup for Android Autos – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media Setup your testing environment – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/testing See Tony’s PR contribution to AntennaPod
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link: When Things Click: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning
Removing praise and criticism from learning. What good teacher do If a student does not learn, it’s the teacher’s fault, not the student. Brake down a skill into learnable pieces Inspire students to achieve more https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802422904/when-things-click-the-power-of-judgment-free-learning
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link: Android Studio plugins
Let the machine help you build/make Android apps. Start with some of these plugins. https://blog.codota.com/top-17-plugins-for-android-studio/